Bracket-shelf.



No. 798,193. PATENTED AUG. 29, 1905. H. I. LATTEY,

BRACKET SHELF.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 6. 190a.

15 fl g W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY FITZHERBERT LATTEY. OF DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND.

BRACKET-SH ELF.

To all whom it may conoerm.

Be it known that I, HARRY F TzHnRBERT LATTEY, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a residentof Dunedin, New Zealand, have invented certain Improvements in Bracket-Shelves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bracket-shelves that are hung on walls or placed to stand on a table; and its object is to provide a cheap device for a bracket-shelf that will lie flat for packing and carriage.

It consists of a sheet of flexible material, preferably tin and the like, formed into blocks of any suitable design and cut, preferably, bystamping with a suitable die in any desired part thereof, preferably in three pieces, which, however, remain integral with the sheet, sothat the middle piece shall when bent substantially perpendicular to the blank form a shelf, and the two pieces being one on each side of the middle piece shall when bent outward, so as to be inclined toward each other, form supports for said shelf. The middle piece may be cut in any suitable shape, and the side pieces may be cut horn-shaped, so that their ends will form clips adapted to be inserted through holes suitably placed in the middle piece and, if desired, clipped thereon.

The front and other parts of the device may be used for advertising purposes, the shelf being also used in such cases to support the article or packet to whichattention is desired to be drawn.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 illustrates a device for a bracketshelf with two brackets beneath it. Fig. 2 is a plan thereof.

In the device as illustrated sheets of material formed into blanks 1 of any desired ornamental design and perforated, if desired, with a hole or holes 2 3 for hanging purposes are provided with the outline of a shelf 1 with holes 9 10 therein and horn-shaped pieces 5 6 cut, preferably, by stamping with a suitable die through the blank. These pieces 5 6 have their upper surfaces substantially horizontal, and they are also provided with upwardly-curved ends 7 8, which are adapted to pass through the holes 9 10 in the shelf, as and for the purposes hereinafter de- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1905.

Application fil d August e, 1903. Serial No. 168,523.

scribed. The part of the blank between the ends 7 and 8 which forms the connectingpiece 12 between the shelf et and the blank 1 has a crease or groove 11 formed in it to facilitate the bending of the shelf into its desired position. The device may also be decorated or printed on and fitted with a prop behind for use on a table, if desired. The device is thus in a flat form suitable for packing and cheap carriage.

In order to bring the device into a useful condition, the part 1 is bent substantially at right angles to the blank .1, forming a shelf, and the horn-shaped pieces 5 and 6 are pulled forward underneath the shelf and form brackets or supports therefor, as illustrated inFig. 2. The ends 7 and 8 of the horn-shaped pieces are respectively inserted through holes 9 and 10 in the shelf and may be clenched thereon. The substantially horizontal portions of the horn shaped pieces 5 and 6 insure that the shelf will assume a substantially horizontal position when they are brought underneath it.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bracket-shelf consisting of a blank of flexible sheet material, a portion of same cut through in any desired configuration leaving a piece connecting the top of the cut-out portion with said blank, and two horizontal pieces cut in said blank one on each side of said connecting-piece, and above the cut-out portion, all of said portions being bent at right angles to the body of the blank, the first-mentioned cut-out portion having holes therein with which the ends of the horizontal pieces engage, substantially as described.

2. A bracket-shelf consisting of a blank of flexible sheet material, a portion of same cut through in any desired configuration leaving a piece connecting the top of the cut-out portion with the blank, and two horn-shaped portions cut in said blank, one on each side of said connecting-piece and above the cut-out portion, all of said portions being bent at right angles to the body of the blank with the horn-shaped portions supporting the firstmentioned portion.

3. A bracket-shelf consisting of a blank of flexible material, a portion of the same being cut through in any desired configuration leaving a piece connecting the cut-out portion with said blank, and two portions cut in said said first-mentioned portion; substantially as blank one on each side of the connecting-piece described. I 0

and above the cut-out portion said portions In witness whereof I have hereunto set my having turned-up ends, all of said portions hand in presence of two witnesses.

being bent at right angles to the body of the HARRY FITZHERBERT LATTEY. blank, the first mentioned portion having Witnesses: holes therein with which the turned-up ends H. PARK,

of the other portions engage to support the J. R. PARK. 

